Beastmaster of the Ages

The Xuanyuan Dragon Sect won’t be able to hold on for long, so we can just wait.
That child has nowhere else to go.
Without our support, he’ll find it hard to join the Sky Palace for real after five centuries of lackluster training! He’ll see the light soon enough.
It doesn’t matter if he’s hostile toward us now.
It’s not like we represent the Empyrean Sword Sect in its entirety.
We’ll play the role of the crook for now and let the swordsage swoop in to his rescue later! I refuse to believe that he’ll remember Long Wanying’s care for him after we carefully nurture him for the next five centuries,” the Rain Swordlord said self-satisfactorily.

“You’re right,” Shi Yan said, though she scoffed at her in her mind.

……

With the arrival of two swordlords and a hundred thousand swordpupils, the Empyrean Sword Sect had a much bigger force.
However, all their plans had been laid bare before Tianming.
First, they wanted to take the fruits of the divine tree and couldn’t be counted on to fight to the death.
Second, they wanted to conquer the Azurecloud Continent, but that would only work out if the Northdipper Swordsage managed to form his alliance.
Third, they were still after Tianming and the rest, but they had to temporarily give up on that goal in favor of the first.
Gujian Qingshuang processed all the information and had come to a conclusion.

“They’re treating me like a chess piece.
At least you have the courtesy of being direct with me,” Gujian Qingshuang said, rolling his eyes.

“Of course! I’m famous for respecting my elders!” Tianming said.

“The swordlords are your elders too, you know,” Gujian Qingshuang retorted.

“Those two’s idiocy is infamous.
They’re only elders by virtue of age alone,” Long Wanying said.

“You say that, but they’ll wipe the floor with you in a fight,” Yan Nuxia said.

“Well, by the time I’m as old as they are, I’m sure I’ll be able to slaughter the Rain Swordlord like slaughtering a chicken,” Long Wanying hissed.

“Wait, you slaughter chickens?” Ying Huo asked, perched on top of Tianming’s head.

“I’m just joking.
Yep.
Nothing more than a joke,” Long Wanying said, winking.

Ying Huo shuddered.

“Come on, stop flirting around.
You already have one foot in the coffin!” Yan Nuxia said.

“I haven’t flirted for ages.
Can’t hurt to see if I’m out of practice or not.
Even the Rain Swordlord’s still flirting with her husband a lot despite her head being the only part of her that isn’t stuffed in the coffin yet.”

They broke out laughing at the recollection of the Rain Swordlord being soothed by her husband.
Gujian Qingshuang felt cold sweat forming at the notion that this was exactly how he had been spied on before this.

As they laughed, Tianming stilled himself and said, “Everyone, there’s been a breakthrough at the Supracloud Sanctuary! A surprising discovery!”

Yun Tianque’s sect was the key to the next step of Tianming’s plans.
The two main sects of the continent had to unite for them to be able to drive the Empyrean Sword Sect away.

“What is it?” the rest asked.

“Yin Chen’s bodies have increased to a total of two million, which is akin to tens of millions of cockroaches.
I have more than ten million of them spread throughout the continent.
Occasionally, I noticed that Yun Tianque leaves the sect alone, but Yin Chen isn’t quick enough to follow him.
So I figured there must be something he wants to hide.
I gradually spread Yin Chen as far as I can each time he leaves, progressing little by little, until I finally found his destination: a normal mountain range.
However, it’s protected by a grade-six formation.
Though it can stop other elites, Yin Chen was able to burrow inside.
Guess what I found inside?”

“Stop letting us hang like that and be out with it,” Long Wanying said.

Tianming narrowed his eyes and said, “I found a beautiful woman with two children.
Male and female twins, in fact.
The woman isn’t that powerful, probably a constellier, and the children are around three or four years old.
They call Yun Tianque daddy.”

Gujian Qingshuang stood up.
“Looks like his wife isn’t the only one who cheats.”

“That’s right.
They probably aren’t a loving couple at all.
He might even know what she does behind his back.
Lu Yuanji also probably doesn’t care what he does outside.
To think that he married someone else that also isn’t as powerful as he is.
Looks like he’s quite the sentimental person,” Long Wanying said.
That realization made their future plans much easier.

“The grade-six formation is definitely Yun Tianque’s, so facing off against him there isn’t ideal.
We have to use his family to lure him to the Goldridge Mountain to meet us,” Yan Nuxia said.

“Tianming, it should be fine to take his family to Goldridge Mountain and wait for him to come, right?” Long Wanying asked.

Tianming wouldn’t do anything like harming the innocent, but simply moving them to another place wasn’t an issue.
He wasn’t a saint, after all.
“Yeah, that’s fine.”

Crucially, having Yun Tianque stand with him would be good for him too.
Gujian Qingshuang also stood to benefit as he had now come to understand.

“We have to take action before the swordlords ship the eight hundred million fruits back to their sect!”

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